Wallwork?

this unmarked seed pod vase was sold on ebay,the listing said Alan Wallwork but I have not seen this glaze on other Wallwork pots?

Dan , I can't see any semblance to Wallwork at all , none , where's the markings etc.

that is what I thought,te seller has agreed a full refund including postage which says a lot

Oh well , fair enough I suppose

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320798435777?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649

this sold for £55 which is cheap for Wallwork pieces but is it pucka?

Yup , it seems fine to me , a bit tatty but ok

At first glance the one that sold for around £55 looks like someone's attempt to fake a Wallwork but I think Ed is right and it is Alan experimenting, although not too successfully. I imagine that Alan thought the same, as I have never seen anything else like this by him, so I suspect he didn't repeat the exercise too often.

The seller lives in Marnhull where Alan had his studio for around 20 years from the mid 1960s and I know that the seller bought a large number of pieces from Alan over the years.

Having just written the above, I see that Alan emailed the seller before the end of the listing to say that he hadn't made it and to be fair the seller did add that to the bottom of his listing.

Oh I see that SP , i never noticed the footnote, ah well what do I know , I thought it might have been his , I kinda based it on the Marnhull thing as well

It did look wrong to me when I saw it, but I hardly know anything about the variety of Wallwork's work.

It is quite varied ,latest pieces are quite a bit different from earlier days working alongside Rooke .

so how can we tell if a piece is a fake? Any tips?

perhaps the seller would be willing to donate some pics of real Wallwork to the forum/new website?

dantheman wrote:so how can we tell if a piece is a fake? Any tips?

I guess it's like everything else , pottery/Glass Etc. try and see as many pieces as you can , there will always be doubts about stuff , I had what I would have sworn was a Wallwork , Alan agreed ,but seemed to remeber two sisters who worked for him at marnhull who did copy his style though marked them different.

It is always much harder to spot something that isn't right from images but my rule on the internet is never to believe anything that a seller tells you unless you believe it 100% yourself. Having said that I kind of broke that rule above with the "Wallwork" from Marnhull because I knew the seller has bought loads of work from Alan, including odd experimental bits.

However, if I had seen it on Ebay I wouldn't have considered buying it because it didn't meet the other criteria that I try and stick to - never buy anything that is damaged or is a poor example just because it was made by an important name.